Candle-holder.



No. 846,706; v PATBNTBD MAR. 12, 1907'.

, Hi TARTSOH.

CANDLE HOLDER.

APPLIOATIOI FILED JULY 30. 1'04.

rm: ualuus rlnu'zo., wAsnma'mu, n. c.

nrirrnn sT AT E s PATENT OFFICE.

HER cUpAN rnsrsoiiioi i iiie ssssne, GERMANY. CANDLlE-HOLDER.

No. 846,706. Specification of Letters Patent. ratented Maren 12, 1907.

Application filed July 20, 1904. Serial No. 217,394.

I the said candle-holder may also operate at the same time as a light-extinguisher, inasmuch as the tongues which are formed by the slots of the combination of plates will snap together toward the center provided the candle has been consumed down to the point of attachment in the central opening, so as to cause the extinguishing of the light.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a top plan view and Fig. 2 a cross-section through is secured in a plate of metal or of some other the candle-holder in accordance with my i11- suitable material provided with radial slots l vention. Fig. 3 shows the application of the and with a central opening. The candle 1 new candle-holder on a candle 71 holders or protectors of this kind as hereto- 1 In the drawing, a designates the upper fore employed were inconvenient, because 1 plate with the exposed radial slots 1) and with the liquid material of the candle was free to l the central opening 0, and d is the lower plate drip through the slots, as well as past the can- 1 with radial slots f, (shown in dotted lines in die and through the central opening. Fig. 1, as they are covered up.) The union In my invention two or more thin elastic of the two plates is shown on the drawing, for plates of metal or of some other suitable mateinstance, by means of wire rivets g at the rial, which are provided with slots of any suitedge. able shape and with a central opening, are 1 Having now particularly superimposed and securely connected to each ture of my said invention, other in such a manner that the slots of one claim is plate are covered up by the tongues of the In a candle -holder the combination of other plate, so as to be tight against dripping plates arranged tightly one above the other, and so that the liquid material of the candle radial tongues, produced by slots, in one of which flows down from the candle is preventthe plates and radial tongues, likewise proed from dripping through, but is caught induced by slots, in the superimposed plate. stead. In this arrangement of several slotthe tongues being arranged alternatingly to ted metal plates with alternating radial slots I each other in such a manner, that the tongues produces this advantage, as compared with of one plate cover the slots of the other plate, the well-known candle-holders consisting of a central opening in the plates, means for sea simple slotted plate, that the candle is more curely combining the plates with each other, securely retained in the central opening and substantially as described and for the purthat a tighter and more elastic fitting of the pose set forth. 7 protector of the candle-holder around the In witness whereofIhave hereunto set my candle is obtained. hand in presence of two witnesses.

In case the central opening in the combi- HERCULAN TARTSGH nation of plates serving as candle-holder in To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEncULAN TARTSCH, engineer, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, residing at 7 Miihlenberg, Konigsberg, Prussia, Germany, have invent- 1 ed a new and useful Improvement in Candle- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to candle hold ers or supports of the kind where the candle described the na- I declare what I accordance with myinvention is made sufl1- Witnesses: ciently small so as to have a diameter, for LOUIS HANssEN, mstance, of not more than five millimeters E. ZANDER. 

